William Gamble

William Gamble (1 January 1818-20 December 1866) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
William Gamble was born in Lisnarick, County Fermanagh, Ireland on 1 January 1818 to an Ulster Scots family, and he came to the United States in 1838 after working as a surveyor and serving as a dragoon in the British Army. Gamble fought against the Seminoles in Florida and was a Lieutenant-Colonel in an Illinois cavalry regiment when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. He was wounded in the chest while leading a cavalry charge during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, and he was promoted to colonel on 5 December of that year. Gamble was on leave at the same time as Chancellorsville and the largest cavalry battle on US soil, the Battle of Brandy Station, in the spring of 1863, and he led a brigade in John Buford's cavalry division of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg in July. Gamble's men slowed A.P. Hill's Confederate Mississippi brigades on the Chambersburg Pike, and his men provided the Union army with a window that allowed for it to reposition its troops. Later that year, he was given a divisional command in the XXII Corps in Washington DC and, apart from some clashes with partisan leader John S. Mosby, Gamble held no more field commands. He died of cholera in Virgin Bay, Nicaragua on 20 December 1866 while en route to the Presidio of San Francisco in California, which was meant to be his next command.